Ugh... This is the type of thing I love about languages like ruby and python, this kind of crap debate doesn't matter, there is really pretty much one way to wr

Ugh... This is the type of thing I love about languages like ruby and python, this kind of crap debate doesn't matter, there is really pretty much one way to write it. Braced languages annoy me because every developer seems to have their own "special" brand of stupid formatting. Some perfect examples of this thinking are right here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Horstmann_style http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Horstmann_style http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Whitesmiths_style http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Whitesmiths_style Think about basic writing people. Would you decide not to put a space before a parenthetic statement(obviously not)? Or like one comment suggested, you would never put a space after the opening or before the end ( unless you are just being ironic ). It doesn't matter how you think it looks, it matters that you are trying to be different for the sake of being different. Stop it.